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2. City Beautiful movement - Wikipedia

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   The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height.

3. Charles Mulford Robinson - Wikipedia

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   Charles Mulford Robinson (1869–1917) was a journalist and a writer who became famous as a pioneering urban planning theorist. He has the greatest influence as a missionary for urban beautification. [1]

4. A Case for Civic Splendor: Notes on the City Beautiful Movement

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   In 1893, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a gleaming citadel shone forth upon the banks of Lake Michigan, a shining light in contrast to the grimy, sooty, industrial purgatory ...

5. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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   The City Beautiful movement was inspired by 19th century European capital cities such as Georges-Eugène Haussmann's Paris or the Vienna Ring Road. [30] An influential figure was Daniel Burnham (1846-1912), who was the chief of construction of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. [ 30 ]

6. American Planning and Civic Association - Wikipedia

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   Many organizations arose in the larger cities to campaign for more city parks, new recreation areas, development of outdoor art, and the elimination of advertising billboards. In 1900 these groups joined to form the American League for Civic Improvement, and four years later this group became the American Civic Association.

7. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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   Examples of the City Beautiful movement's works include the City of Chicago, the Columbia University campus, and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. After the fair closed, J.C. Rogers, a banker from Wamego, Kansas, purchased several pieces of art that had hung in the rotunda of the U.S. Government Building. He also purchased architectural ...

8. Sonar image speculated to be Amelia Earhart’s long ... - AOL

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   The 16-person journey mounted in September 2023 from Tarawa, Kirbati, a port near Howland Island, and the team’s unmanned submersible scanned 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.

9. History of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   A high point of Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement was the construction and dedication of a new and expensive capitol building. Originally expected to cost $5 to $10 million, the cost had risen to $12.5 million when dedicated in 1906 ($4 million of which was for graft ; $850 was spent for a $150 flagpole, for example).